Micah ☔️’s Reviews > The Best American Sports Writing Of The Century: Classic Journalism from Baseball, Boxing, Horseracing, Golf, and Tennis > Status Update
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“The night had a cold, phantasmal beauty that intensified as we ascended. More stars than I had ever seen smeared the frozen sky. A gibbous moon rose… washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp” -John Krakauer, Into Thin Air (1996, Outside)
— Aug 12, 2026 08:11AM
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For the most part this anthology displays an impressive breadth of subject matter. But I could have done with fewer pieces about a washed up baseball legend who’s now staring down leaving the game behind for good.
I get it man, mortality comes for us all.
— Jun 30, 2026 11:31AM
I get it man, mortality comes for us all.
Micah ☔️
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Reading the Billy Conn profile (“The Boxer and the Blonde”), it’s so funny that as recently as 1985 the father in law of a famous athlete could be the de facto villain in a profile for being angry that an adult man started dating his daughter when she was 16.
If any Frank Deford superfans read this. Yes I know his articles are penetrating character studies that defy the simple morality of most sportswriting
— May 20, 2026 02:52PM
If any Frank Deford superfans read this. Yes I know his articles are penetrating character studies that defy the simple morality of most sportswriting